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----- Meeting Notes (21/03/2014 14:15) ----- No assumptions that people know how the tools work…. We have a test which we have put together…. Students could say that they know how a tool works, but not really know how it works…

iPad byline….

GI Learner Local Gent

4.
What is a learning line?
A learning line is an educational term that refers
to the construction of knowledge and skills
throughout the whole curriculum.
This learning line reflects an increasing level of
complexity, ranging from easy (more basic skills
and knowledge) to difficult.
Zwartjes, L., 2014. The need for a learning line for spatial thinking
using GIS in education. Innovative Learning Geography in Europe: New
Challenge for the 21st Century, pp.39-62.

5.
What is a learning line?
A learning line is an educational term that refers
to the construction of knowledge and skills
throughout the whole curriculum.
This learning line reflects an increasing level of
complexity, ranging from easy (more basic skills
and knowledge) to difficult.
Zwartjes, L., 2014. The need for a learning line for spatial thinking
using GIS in education. Innovative Learning Geography in Europe: New
Challenge for the 21st Century, pp.39-62.

6.
What is a learning line?
A learning line is an educational term that refers
to the construction of knowledge and skills
throughout the whole curriculum.
This learning line reflects an increasing level of
complexity, ranging from easy (more basic skills
and knowledge) to difficult.
Zwartjes, L., 2014. The need for a learning line for spatial thinking
using GIS in education. Innovative Learning Geography in Europe: New
Challenge for the 21st Century, pp.39-62.

8.
Geospatial thinking
Based on this review, ten geospatial thinking competences have
been proposed (can be found at the end of the literature review
document):
1. Critically read, interpret cartographic and
other visualisations in different media
2. Be aware of geographic information and its
representation through GI and GIS.
3. Visually communicate geographic information
4. Describe and use examples of GI applications
in daily life and in society
5. Use (freely available) GI interfaces

9.
Geospatial thinking
Based on this review, ten geospatial thinking competences have
been proposed (can be found at the end of the literature review
document):
1. Critically read, interpret cartographic and
other visualisations in different media
2. Be aware of geographic information and its
representation through GI and GIS.
3. Visually communicate geographic information
4. Describe and use examples of GI applications
in daily life and in society
5. Use (freely available) GI interfaces

10.
Geospatial thinking
6. Carry out own (primary) data capture
7. Be able to identify and evaluate (secondary)
data
8. Examine interrelationships
9. Extract new insight from analysis
10.Reflect and act with knowledge

16.
Definitions of “local”
Wal-Mart’s official definition of local is
any product grown or produced within
the given store’s state.
So, lemons grown in San Diego can be
sold and marketed as “local” 500 miles
north in Sacramento
http://www.think-mag.com/your-community/defining-local/

21.
Local – student thoughts…
“nearby”
“where I can cycle to”
“places that I know well”
“within a few miles of Ely”
“somewhere I can walk to…”
“somewhere I know”
“the places I go to around my home
town”

22.
Local - colleagues
“the area within a five mile radius”
“where our town stops and another one
starts”
“where the road / river / railway line
runs”
“beyond the <landmark>”
“where the telephone code changes”
“where the postal code changes”
“where you can buy the local paper”

23.
“Good teachers use good tools”
Derek Robertson, University of
Dundee
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/gadgets-gaming/scotsman-games-derek-robertson-on-education-1-3162936

27.
slumped.stitch.recruited
http://www.what3words.com
Also a camera app which adds the address to an image
Enter the 3 Words and the app will guide you there…
Where was this room?

28.
Layers of meaning… GI layers…
• Favourite / least favourite subjects & memories
of encounters with teachers
• Cleaning rota
• Timetabling
• Teacher ‘ownership’ who then moves on to
another school
• Form room
• Noisy or quiet
• Distance from staffroom
• Exposure to sun through the day

29.
Professor Doreen Massey
“the global sense of the local”
Maps as a surface for stories to play out on.

30.
Interrelationships
“I think that what is studied in
geography lessons should be located and
placed within a wider context. Places,
regions, countries and continents do not
exist in isolation but are interconnected.
The location of what is studied in
relation to other places is significant.”
Margaret Roberts

31.
Interrelationships
“I think that what is studied in
geography lessons should be located and
placed within a wider context. Places,
regions, countries and continents do not
exist in isolation but are interconnected.
The location of what is studied in
relation to other places is significant.”
Margaret Roberts